Genetically Modified (GM) Food

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 1 11:23:35 PST 1999


In message <36D9F1D7.5653 at concentric.net>, W. Kiernan <WKiernan at concentric.net> writes


>The science of GM holds great promise for mankind, but as always,
>capitalism ruins everything. You or I would use GM to improve the
>quality and quantity of harvests, for the benefit of the people who eat
>the food. Instead, look at what GM is actually being used for today.
>Monsanto openly uses it deliberately to poison the people who eat the
>food, or to starve them.

Aren't you rather overstating that. Monsanto needs people to make money out of. I know of no evidence to the effect that they are being poisoned or starved.


> But Monsanto's profit-mad
>management apparently has deliberately selected out the most nightmarish
>possibilties, and forced them out into nature at the riot speed of
>purposeful human action, not even moderated by sensible caution. That
>is why Jim Heartfield is wrong, and Monsanto must be thwarted.

Strange that you think 'purposeful' = bad. I rather thought that the problem with capitalism was its lack of deliberate selection, not an excess of it.

Monsanto must be thwarted, but so must the evil exploiters of the health industry and Hollywood. Why single out Monsanto above Guardian newspapers plc? -- Jim heartfield



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